From: ptkwt@... (Phil Tomson)
Date: 2005-02-07T22:10:15+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby and maildir

In article <fd55348f050206175951105ccc@mail.gmail.com>,
Dido Sevilla  <dido.sevilla@gmail.com> wrote:
>On Mon, 7 Feb 2005 09:13:42 +0900, mithrandir2003cz@gmail.com
><mithrandir2003cz@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi, Does anybody know about ruby library for working with maildirs?
>> 
>> I checked RAA but I found nothing :-(
>
>I use rubymail (http://www.lickey.com/rubymail/). Maildirs are a
>helluvalot simpler than mboxes. A maildir is simply a directory with
>three standard subdirectories under it named cur, new, and tmp. Each
>of these directories contains one file per mail message, with a name
>based on the epoch time. Rubymail + the standard library is more than
>adequate to do any reasonable manipulation of a maildir very easily,
>without an explosion of complexity.
>

Sounds interesting... are there any utilities to translate mailboxes of 
various sorts to mildirs?  (like from the OSX mail program mboxes to 
maildirs)

Phil